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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...history and continents. Being born in Ghana I’ve always known I’m not Black but my Whiteness is not something I see easily in the mirror. If I look away from the mirror, I can see it in the story that took my Irish father and English mother to what was then called The Gold Coast to work in the colonial education service in the early 1950s. My birth certificate from...
The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...history I share with my family, and the connections and allegiances I have with close friends. I’ll even use it in relation to our cheeky dog Daisy, the music of Tom Waits, Sunday morning lie ins and many other things. Clearly, whatever love is, it spans a great deal of emotional and experiential territory. Needless to say, I’m not the first to notice this. For...
Entrepreneurial Lives
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial Lives

...family and work demands, running businesses from home, the role of friends and family members, lifestyle, resource acquisition, and the fascinating, messy realities of entrepreneurs are themes explored in this series by Dr. MariaLaura Di Domenico of The Open University... Invisible Boundaries: When Home is the Business MariaLaura examines the challenges of running a...
What does Marine LePen plan for France?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Marine LePen plan for France?

...families to France (Le Pen underplays how difficult it already is) and asylum seekers will have to make their applications at French embassies and consuls outside France. The fight against Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism will be ramped up, with the creation of a new anti-terrorist agency. ‘Intelligent protectionism’ France’s prosperity, Le Pen argues, depends...
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...History of Latin - The spoken language is the ‘living’ form of a language and all spoken languages are constantly undergoing change. Written languages tend to be more conservative, and associated by speakers with the correct or standard language...Continuing classical Latin: 1.1 Language change - Some linguistic changes, particularly in the use of individual slang...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...history of the making of kente and adinkra discuss the role of the market place in the changing history of kente and adinkra making...Textiles in Ghana: 1 The meanings and values of textiles in Ghana - This course looks at three kinds of textile used and marketed in Kumasi and its surrounding towns in Ghana – the hand-made textiles of kente and adinkra and industrially...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...history in forms of monumental commemoration, but should they also encourage us to reconsider our response to similarly monumental figures in our literary history? [Black Lives Matter Protest, Bristol, UK - the statue of Edward Colston, a slave trader, being thrown in the harbour] 7 June 2020, the Edward Colston statue was pulled down then pushed into Bristol Harbour...
What makes a great speech?
History & The Arts

What makes a great speech?

...history great orators have been able to capture a shift in the zeitgeist, and tap into an audience’s emotions. Speeches by John. F. Kennedy and Winston Churchill are considered among the greatest speeches of all time; but what made their speeches greater than the sum of their parts - and how did their structure and delivery manage to strike a chord that continues to...